Grand Traverse County News

Sheila Sych has the qualities it takes to be a good nanny. She's had nurse training and worked as a Montessori teacher.

Grand Traverse County will pay $10,000 to kick-start a probe of professional negligence by developers of the county septage treatment plant.

Tuesday, June 30, 2009 at 1:48 p.m. We've all heard it's good to recycle. But a viewer wanted to know why some counties are getting tougher about who can recycle using their bins.

Wednesday, June 24, 2009 at 1:10 p.m. It's certainly not breaking news that the state of Michigan is in a major budget crunch.

While many people tried to stay indoors today, the Team Elmer's crew was forced to work outdoors for 12 hours paving roads in Grand Traverse County.

An Interlochen man on parole for a theft-related conviction is back in jail and faces two new felonies for allegedly stealing a pistol from a friend's home.

Despite tough economic times, Northwestern Michigan College is giving back to the community through cost saving measures.

A northern Michigan county road commission had planned to use federal stimulus dollars to repaint lines, but the money is nowhere to be found.

Up North Auto Suppliers... Going, Going, but Not Gone By Anne Stanton 6/22/09 When I emailed a friend I was working on a story about manufacturing, he wrote: 'How long does it take to say 'there is no manufacturing left in Northern Michigan?'' 'Ah, but you're wrong,' I responded.

Fred Joles doesn't have an answer for constituents who ask him if they'll be taxed to support Grand Traverse County's septage treatment plant.

He's vocal, angry and for several months he allegedly "stalked" local police officers.

The Grand Traverse County sheriff's department says 61-year-old Robert Smith jumped into the water Saturday evening after the girl fell in during a fishing excursion.

Grand Traverse County will go with an old-school approach to patch crumbling roads it can't afford to pave.

It's day three in the search for a man police believe drowned in East Grand Traverse Bay on Saturday night while on a family fishing trip.

The Grand Traverse County Sheriff's Office has identified that East Lansing man presumed drowned in Grand Traverse Bay Saturday evening.

It was an exciting Saturday night for a few residents in Grand Traverse County. Last night over a dozen bison escaped from the Great Wolf Lodge property in Traverse City and found their way into a sub-division. Dozens of people from the Sheriff's department, The Great Wolf Lodge and even neighborhood witnesses all tried to help round them up.

According to a new report, Grand Traverse County employees who run Easling Pool are in over their heads -- to the tune of more than $250,000 in 2008 alone.

Authorities are searching Grand Traverse Bay for a man who disappeared while trying to rescue a grandson who fell off a boat.

A Traverse City man was arrested for allegedly assaulting four Grand Traverse County sheriff's deputies trying to arrest him on an out-of-state warrant.

Not far from the Wexford County line on M-37 in Grand Traverse County is the Urka strawberry farm, with ten acres of do-it-yourself strawberry picking goodness.